Supports comprehensive immigration reform with the following components: bring undocumented immigrants out of the shadows and require them to get right with the law, learn English, and pay taxes in order to get on a path to earn citizenship; and create a system for allocating visas that meets the nation’s economic needs, keeps families together, and enforces the law.

Supports the DREAM Act and continuing to provide deferred action to undocumented people who came to the U.S. as children.

Plans to hold employers accountable for whom they hire.

Prioritizes enforcement against criminals who endanger communities instead of immigrants who do not pose a safety threat.

Supports family reunification as a priority. Supports the current administration’s streamlining of the process of legal immigration for immediate relatives of U.S. citizens and the enhanced opportunities for English-language learning and immigrant integration.

Supports continued litigation to oppose state enforcement laws that interfere with federal immigration law.

Supports inclusion of lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender relationships in the definition of family in immigration policy to protect bi-national families threatened with deportation.

Asserts that the southwest border is more secure than at any time in the past twenty years, unlawful crossings are at a 40-year low, and that the Border Patrol is better staffed than at any time in its history.